2002年10月3日 · From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan’s goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern Blacks after the Civil ...

Chief among these groups was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865 as a social club for former Confederate soldiers. By 1868, the Klan had evolved into a hooded terrorist organization responsible for murdering thousands of free blacks and their white Republican allies.

2011年3月1日 · For many years the KKK quite literally could get away with murder. The Ku Klux Klan was an instrument of fear, and black people, Jews and even white civil rights workers knew that the fear was intended to control us, to keep things as they had been in the South through slavery, and after that ended, through Jim Crow.

The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South.

Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the...

2019年6月5日 · By 1868, the Ku Klux Klan had evolved into a large organization, and earned the name “The Invisible Empire of the South”, because of their political power and control they held over the southern...

2016年3月14日 · In the late 1860s and early 1870s, the Ku Klux Klan inflicted terror and violence on Black Southerners in an effort to intimidate them and influence elections. Abram Colby, an African American legislator from Georgia, was a victim of Klan violence.

the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885, Jonathan M. Wiener described the Klan in the Alabama Black Belt as "an instrument of the planter class, rather than the poor whites." He holds that in the cotton belt the Klan "worked in pursuit of the goals of the planters," helping perpetuate the plantation system rather than narrow political objectives ...

2022年9月1日 · all the facts they know about Ku Klux Klan violence in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Questions they should answer include: What happened? What choices were made in this situation? By whom? Who was affected? When did it happen? Where did it happen? Write the ideas supplied by the class on the diagram on the board.

2016年3月5日 · Formed in 1865 as a “secret lodge” by former Confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Invisible Empire or Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been and remains committed to white supremacy in America. Klansmen, beside other diehard groups, violently resisted Reconstruction.